EXHIBIT 10.44
THE 7TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2003
EQUITABLE CHARGE OF SHARES
(Collateral to a Substituted Debenture bearing even date herewith and
entered into between the Borrower and the Secured Party)
BETWEEN
DESALCO LIMITED
AND
SCOTIABANK (CAYMAN ISLANDS) LTD.
as Secured Party
with respect to the shares in
DESALCO (BABADOS) LTD.
THIS COLLATERAL CHARGE ("CHARGE") is made on the 7th day of February, 2002
between the following parties:
(1) DESALCO LIMITED, a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, with its
registered office located in Xxxxxx Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands,
(the "DESALCO"); and
(2) SCOTIABANK (CAYMAN ISLANDS) LTD. a banking institution organised and
existing under the laws of the Cayman Islands, with its principal place
of business located at Scotiabank Centre, Cardinal Avenue, Georgetown,
Grand Cayman (the "SECURED PARTY").
RECITALS
A. The Borrower currently holds one hundred percent (100%) of the shares
of DesalCo who, in turn, holds one hundred percent (100%) of the shares
of DesalCo (Barbados) Ltd. (the "COMPANY").
B. The Secured Party has agreed to provide certain loans to the Borrower.
C. Such loans will be made subject to the terms and conditions of a Loan
Agreement, dated the date hereof, among the Borrower and the Secured
Party (the "LOAN AGREEMENT").
D. It is a condition to the first disbursement under the Loan Agreement
that DesalCo shall have entered into this Charge.
E. The Boards of Directors of DesalCo are satisfied that the DesalCo is
entering into this Charge for the purpose of its business and that by
doing so it benefits DesalCo.
X. XxxxxXx and the Secured Party intend this Charge to take effect as a
deed.
G. This Collateral Charge is intended to be collateral to a Substituted
Debenture bearing even date herewith entered into between the Borrower
and the Secured Party and shall be stamped as such.
1. INTERPRETATION
1.1 DEFINITIONS
(a) Capitalized terms used in this Charge without definition have the
meanings specified in Annex A to the Loan Agreement.
(b) In addition the following terms in this Charge have the meanings given
to them in this Clause.
"CHARGED SHARES" means any shares from time to time forming part of the Secured
Property.
"FINANCING DOCUMENTS" means collectively, (i) the Loan Agreement, (ii) the
Security Documents, and (iii) the Fee Letter.
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"INITIALLY CHARGED SHARES" means all the shares in the Company specified in
recital "A" to this Charge of which the Company is the beneficial or registered
owner on the date of this Charge.
"OBLIGATIONS" shall mean, collectively, all loans, advances, debts, liabilities,
and obligations, howsoever arising, owed by the Borrower under a Financing
Document or otherwise to the Secured Party.
"RECEIVER" means an administrative receiver, a receiver and manager or any other
receiver (whether appointed pursuant to this Charge, pursuant to any statute, by
a court or otherwise) of the Secured Property or any part of it.
"SECURED OBLIGATIONS" means all present and future Obligations.
"SECURED PROPERTY" means the Initially Charged Shares and any other shares in
the Company of which DesalCo is or becomes the beneficial or registered owner
together with all dividends, stocks, shares, warrants, securities, rights,
monies or other property accruing on or derived from such shares.
"SECURITY" means the security created by this Charge.
"SECURITY PERIOD" means the period beginning on the date of this Charge and
ending on the date upon which:
(a) the Secured Party is under no obligation (whether actual or contingent)
to make advances or provide other financial accommodation to the
Borrower under any of the Financing Documents; and
(b) all Secured Obligations have been unconditionally and irrevocably paid
and discharged in full.
1.2 INTERPRETATION
The principles of interpretation set forth in Section 18.13 to the Loan
Agreement shall apply to this Charge.
1.3 CONTINUING EVENTS OF DEFAULT
An event which constitutes an Event of Default shall be regarded as continuing
if (a) the circumstances constituting such event continue and (b) the Secured
Party has not waived such of its rights under the Financing Documents as arise
as a result of the occurrence of that event.
1.4 CERTIFICATES
A certificate of the Secured Party as to the amount of any Secured Obligation
owed to it shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amount of such
Secured Obligation.
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1.5 STATUTES
Any reference in this Charge to a statute or statutory provision shall, unless
the contrary is indicated, be construed as a reference to such statute or
statutory provision as the same shall have been or may be amended or re-enacted.
1.6 NOMINEES
If the Secured Party causes or requires the Charged Shares to be registered in
the name of a nominee for the Secured Party, any reference in this Charge to the
Secured Party shall, if the context so permits or requires, be construed as a
reference to the Secured Party and such nominee.
1.7 CLAUSE AND SCHEDULE HEADINGS
Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only and shall not affect
the construction of this Charge.
2. EQUITABLE CHARGE
2.1 CHARGE
DesalCo hereby charges with full title guarantee the Secured Property to the
Secured Party to hold the same on trust as security for the payment and
discharge of the Secured Obligations.
2.2 DEPOSIT OF SHARE CERTIFICATES
Immediately upon execution of this Charge and as a condition to the initial
disbursement under the Loan Agreement, DesalCo shall deposit with the Secured
Party all share certificates and other documents of title relating to the
Initially Charged Shares together with stock transfer forms in respect of the
Initially Charged Shares duly executed in blank by or on behalf of DesalCo.
2.3 FURTHER SHARES
Upon its becoming the beneficial or registered owner of any Charged Shares
(other than the Initially Charged Shares) DesalCo shall ensure that such Charged
Shares (unless already so registered) are registered in the name of the DesalCo
and shall promptly notify the Secured Party of such circumstances and deposit
with the Secured Party any share certificates and other documents of title
representing such Charged Shares together with blank stock transfer forms in
respect of such Charged Shares duly executed by or on behalf of DesalCo.
The Borrower shall pay when due all calls or other requests for payments due in
respect of any of the Secured Property, but if the Borrower fails to make any
such payment the Secured Party may (but shall not be obliged to) make such
payment on behalf of the Borrower and if the Secured Party does so the Borrower
shall promptly on demand of the Secured Party pay to the Secured Party an amount
equal to such payment.
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3. DIVIDENDS, VOTING AND INFORMATION
3.1 SECURITY NOT ENFORCEABLE
Unless and until the Security has become enforceable pursuant to Clause 8.1
(Security Enforceable), DesalCo shall continue to be entitled to:
(a) receive and retain all dividends, interest and other monies arising
from the Secured Property; and
(b) exercise all voting rights in relation to the Charged Shares;
provided that DesalCo shall not exercise such voting rights, or otherwise permit
or agree to (i) any variation of the rights attaching to or conferred by the
Secured Property or any part of it, (ii) any increase in the issued share
capital of the Company in any manner which, in the opinion of the Secured Party,
would, or would be reasonably likely to, impair the value of, or prejudice the
ability of the Secured Party to realise, the Security or (iii) in violation of
any provision of the Financing Documents.
3.2 SECURITY ENFORCEABLE
At any time after the Security has become enforceable pursuant to Clause 8.1,
the Secured Party shall be entitled to cause the Charged Shares to be registered
in its name and may at its discretion (in the name of DesalCo or otherwise and
without any further consent or authority from the DesalCo):
(a) exercise or refrain from exercising any voting rights in respect of the
Charged Shares and revoke, or cause to be revoked, any proxies given
pursuant to Clause 3.1 (Security not Enforceable);
(b) apply all dividends, interest and other monies arising from the Secured
Property as if they were proceeds of sale under this Charge;
(c) exercise or refrain from exercising the rights of a legal owner of the
Secured Property, including the right, in relation to any company whose
shares or other securities are included in the Secured Property, to
concur or participate in:
(i) the reconstruction, amalgamation, sale or other disposal of
such company or any of its assets or undertaking (including
the exchange, conversion or reissue of any shares or
securities as a consequence thereof),
(ii) the realisation, modification or variation of any rights or
liabilities attaching to any such shares or securities, and
(iii) the exercise, renunciation or assignment of any right to
subscribe for any such shares or securities,
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in each case in such manner and on such terms as the Secured
Party may think fit, and all rights resulting from any such
action shall form part of the Secured Property.
3.3 INFORMATION
If DesalCo receives a balance sheet, profit and loss account or any notice,
report, statement or circular sent or delivered by the issuer of any Charged
Share to its members, it shall promptly deliver a copy to the Secured Party.
4. CONTINUING SECURITY
4.1 CONTINUING AND INDEPENDENT SECURITY
This Charge shall constitute and be continuing security which shall not be
released or discharged by any intermediate payment or settlement of all or any
of the Secured Obligations, shall continue in full force and effect until the
end of the Security Period and is in addition to and independent of, and shall
not prejudice or merge with, any other security (or any right of set-off) which
the Secured Party may hold at any time for the Secured Obligations or any of
them.
4.2 AVOIDANCE OF PAYMENTS
Where any release, discharge or other arrangement in respect of any Secured
Obligation or any security any Secured Party may hold for such Secured
Obligation is given or made in reliance on any payment or other disposition
which is avoided or must be repaid in an insolvency, liquidation or otherwise,
and whether or not such Secured Party has conceded or compromised any claim that
any such payment or other disposition will or should be avoided or repaid, this
Charge and the Security shall continue as if such release, discharge or other
arrangement had not been given or made.
4.3 IMMEDIATE RECOURSE
The Secured Party shall not be obliged before exercising any of the rights
conferred on it by this Charge or by law to seek to recover amounts due from the
Borrower or to exercise or enforce any other rights or security it may have or
hold in respect of the Secured Obligations.
4.4 WAIVER OF DEFENCES
The obligations of DesalCo under this Charge and the Security Documents to which
it is a party and the rights, powers and remedies conferred on the Secured Party
by this Charge or by law shall not be discharged, impaired or otherwise affected
by:
(a) the winding-up, dissolution, administration or re-organisation of the
Borrower or DesalCo or any other person or any change in the status,
function, control or ownership of the Borrower or DesalCo or any such
person;
(b) any of the Secured Obligations or any other security held by the
Secured Party in respect thereof being or becoming illegal, invalid,
unenforceable or ineffective in any respect;
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(c) any time or other indulgence being granted or agreed to with the
Borrower, DesalCo or any other person in respect of the Secured
Obligations or any of them or in respect of any other security held by
the Secured Party in respect thereof;
(d) any amendment to, or any variation, waiver or release of, the Secured
Obligations or any of them or any other security held by the Secured
Party in respect thereof;
(e) any total or partial failure to take or perfect any security proposed
to be taken in respect of the Secured Obligations or any of them;
(f) any total or partial failure to realise the value of, or any release,
discharge, exchange or substitution of, any other security held by the
Secured Party in respect of the Secured Obligations or any of them; or
(g) any other act, event or omission which might operate to discharge,
impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower or DesalCo
hereunder, the Security or any of the rights, powers and remedies
conferred on the Secured Party by this Charge or by law.
4.5 NO COMPETITION
Any right which the Borrower or DesalCo may have (a) by way of contribution or
indemnity in relation to the Secured Obligations or (b) otherwise to claim or
prove as a creditor of the Company or any other person or its estate in
competition whether a right of subrogation or otherwise with the Secured Party,
shall be exercised by the Borrower and/or DesalCo only if and to the extent that
the Secured Party so requires and in such manner and upon such terms as the
Secured Party may specify and the Borrower and DesalCo shall hold any moneys,
rights or security held or received by each of them as a result of the exercise
of any such rights on trust for the Secured Party for application in accordance
with the terms of this Charge as if such moneys, rights or security were held or
received by the Secured Party under this Charge.
4.6 APPROPRIATION
The Secured Party shall not be obliged to apply any sums held or received by it
in respect of the Secured Obligations in or towards payment of the Secured
Obligations and any such sum shall be held by or paid to the Secured Party for
application pursuant to the terms of this Charge.
4.7 SUBROGATION
DesalCo shall not have any right of subrogation in respect of the performance of
any of its respective obligations under this Agreement and the Charge until all
of the Secured Obligations have been paid in full.
5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
DesalCo makes the representations and warranties set out in Clauses 5.1 (Status
and Due Authorisation) to 5.12 (No Security from the Company) and acknowledge
that the Secured Party has entered into this Charge in reliance on those
representations and warranties.
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5.1 STATUS AND DUE AUTHORISATION
It is a company duly incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the
Cayman Islands with power to enter into this Charge and to exercise its rights
and perform its obligations under this Charge and all corporate and other action
required to authorise its execution of this Charge and its performance of its
obligations hereunder has been duly taken.
5.2 BINDING OBLIGATIONS
The obligations expressed to be assumed by it in this Charge are legal and valid
obligations binding on it in accordance with the terms of this Charge which
constitutes a first priority fixed charge over the Charged Shares subject to any
general principles of law limiting its obligations which are referred to in any
legal opinion delivered pursuant to the Loan Agreement.
5.3 ALL ACTIONS TAKEN
All acts, conditions and things required to be done, fulfilled and performed in
order (a) to enable it lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights under and
perform and comply with the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in this
Charge, (b) to ensure that the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in this
Charge are legal, valid and binding and (c) to make this Charge admissible in
evidence in its jurisdiction of incorporation have been done, fulfilled and
performed.
5.4 NO DEDUCTIONS OR WITHHOLDINGS
It will not be required to make any deduction or withholding from any payment it
may make under this Charge.
5.5 NO FILING OR STAMP TAXES
Under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, it is not necessary that
this Charge be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in
the Cayman Islands or that any ad valorem stamp, registration or similar tax be
paid on or in relation to this Charge.
5.6 NO WINDING-UP
It has not taken any corporate action nor have any other steps been taken or
legal proceedings been started or (to the best of its knowledge and belief)
threatened against it for its winding-up, dissolution, administration or
re-organisation or for the appointment of a receiver, administrator,
administrative receiver, trustee or similar officer of it or of any or all of
its assets or revenues.
5.7 NO ADVERSE INTERESTS
Subject only to the Security, no person other than DesalCo has any legal or
beneficial interest (or any right to claim any such interest) in the Secured
Property and DesalCo has not received notice of any such claim.
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5.8 NO DISPOSALS
Save as contemplated in this Charge, it has not transferred, mortgaged, charged
or otherwise disposed of (or agreed to transfer, mortgage, charge or otherwise
dispose of), whether by way of security or otherwise, the benefit of all or any
of its right, title and interest in and to the Secured Property or any part of
it.
5.9 NO CONFLICTS
Its execution of this Charge and its exercise of its rights and performance of
its obligations here-under do not and will not (a) conflict with the provisions
of (i) any agreement, mortgage, bond or other instrument or treaty to which it
is a party or which is binding upon it or any of its assets, (ii) its
constitutive documents or any rules and regulations made thereunder or (iii) any
applicable law, regulation or official or judicial order or (b) cause any of the
foregoing representations to be untrue.
5.10 THE CHARGED SHARES
Each Charged Share is fully paid or credited as fully paid, no calls have been
made in respect thereof and remain unpaid and no calls can be made in respect of
such Charged Share in the future and the terms of each Charged Share and of the
Memorandum and Articles of Association of the issuer of such Charged Share do
not restrict or otherwise limit DesalCo's right to transfer or charge such
Charged Share.
5.11 CHOICE OF LAW
In any proceedings taken in its jurisdiction of incorporation in relation to
this Charge, the choice of Barbados law as the governing law of this Charge and
any judgment obtained in Barbados will be recognised and enforced.
5.12 NO SECURITY FROM THE COMPANY
It has not requested or taken any security from the Company for any obligations
or liabilities of the Company to it.
5.13 REPETITION
The representations and warranties set out in Clauses 5.1 (Status and Due
Authorisation) to 5.12 (No Security from the Company):
(a) shall survive the execution of each Financing Document and each
drawdown under the Loan Agreement; and
(b) are made on the date hereof and are deemed to be repeated on each Draw
down Date during the Security Period with reference to the facts and
circumstances then existing.
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6. UNDERTAKINGS
6.1 AUTHORISATIONS
DesalCo shall obtain, comply with the terms of and do all that is necessary to
maintain in full force and effect all authorisations, approvals, licences and
consents required in or by the laws and regulations of its jurisdiction of
incorporation to enable it lawfully to enter into and perform its obligations
under this Charge and to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or
admissibility in evidence in its jurisdiction of incorporation of this Charge.
6.2 NO ACTION
DesalCo shall not take any action which would cause any of the representations
made in Clause 5 (Representations and Warranties) to be untrue at any time
during the Security Period.
6.3 NOTIFICATION OF MISREPRESENTATION
DesalCo shall notify the Secured Party of the occurrence of any event which
results in or may reasonably be expected to result in any of the representations
made in Clause 5 (Representations and Warranties) being untrue when made or
when deemed to be repeated.
6.4 NO VARIATION OR RELEASE
DesalCo shall not, without the prior written consent of the Secured Party,
purport to vary or revoke any notice or instruction relating to this Charge
which it has given or may later give to any person.
6.5 NO ACTION TO JEOPARDISE SECURITY CONSTITUTED HEREBY
DesalCo shall not do or fail to do or cause or permit another person to do or
omit to do anything which is liable to jeopardise the effectiveness or priority,
in relation to the Security.
7. FURTHER ASSURANCE
DesalCo shall from time to time and at its own expense give all such assurances
and do all such things as the Secured Party may require in order to enable the
Secured Party to perfect or protect the security created or intended to be
created by this Charge or to exercise any of the rights conferred on it by this
Charge or by law and to that intent DesalCo shall execute all such instruments,
deeds and agreements and give all such notices and directions as the Secured
Party may require.
8. ENFORCEMENT OF SECURITY
8.1 SECURITY ENFORCEABLE
The Security shall become immediately enforceable if an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing as defined above in Clause 1.3.
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8.2 ENFORCEMENT
At any time after the Security has become enforceable, the Secured Party may in
its absolute discretion enforce all or any part of the Security and exercise any
of the rights conferred on it by this Charge or by law at such times and in such
manner as it thinks fit.
8.3 POWER OF SALE
At any time after the Security has become enforceable pursuant to Clause 8.1
(Security Enforceable), the Secured Party may (without notice to the Borrower or
DesalCo) sell or otherwise dispose of the Secured Property or any part of it and
shall be entitled to apply the proceeds of such sale or other disposal in paying
the costs of such sale or disposal and thereafter in or towards the discharge of
the Secured Obligations or otherwise as provided for in this Charge.
8.4 STATUTORY POWERS
For the purposes of all powers implied by statute the Secured Obligations shall
be deemed to have become due and payable on the date of this Charge.
8.5 REGISTRATION OF SHARES
The Secured Party shall be entitled at any time after the Security has become
enforceable pursuant to Clause 8.1 (Security Enforceable) to complete any stock
transfer forms then held by the Secured Party pursuant to this Charge in the
name of the Secured Party and thereupon the Borrower and DesalCo shall do
whatever the Secured Party requires in order to procure:
(a) The prompt registration of such transfer or transfers and the prompt
issue of a new certificate or certificates for the relevant Charged
Shares in the name of the Secured Party who shall hold such Charged
Shares as Security for the Obligations in furtherance of the power of
sale provided for in Clause 8.3 above; and
(b) Compliance by the Company with all requirements of the Land Holding
Companies Share Transfer Tax Law (2002 Revision), as the same may be
amended from time to time, or any legislation in substitution or in
addition thereto and the Borrower and DesalCo shall provide all
assistance as may be needed or required by the Company to enable it to
meet such compliance whether financial or otherwise.
9. RECEIVERS
9.1 APPOINTMENT
At any time after the Security has become enforceable (whether or not the
Secured Party shall have taken possession of the Secured Property), or following
the dissolution of DesalCo, and without any or further notice, the Secured Party
may, by Deed or writing signed by any officer or manager of the Secured Party or
any person authorised for this purpose by the Secured Party, appoint any person
to be Receiver, and may similarly remove any Receiver whether or not it appoints
any person in his place. If the Secured Party appoints more than one person as
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Receiver, the Secured Party may give the relevant persons power to act either
jointly or severally.
9.2 SCOPE OF APPOINTMENT
Any Receiver may be appointed either Receiver of all the Secured Property or
Receiver of such part of the Secured Property as may be specified in the
appointment. In the latter case, the rights conferred on a Receiver by Clause 9
(Receivers) shall have effect as though every reference in that Clause to the
"SECURED PROPERTY" were a reference to the part of the Secured Property so
specified or any part thereof.
9.3 POWERS OF A RECEIVER
Any Receiver appointed under this Charge shall have all the powers granted to a
receiver under the applicable law and, in addition shall have the right, either
in his own name or in the name of DesalCo or otherwise and in such manner and
upon such terms and conditions as the Receiver thinks fit:
(a) in connection with any sale or disposition of the Secured Property, to
receive the consideration therefor in a lump sum or in instalments and
to receive shares by way of consideration;
(b) to grant options, licences or any other interest whatsoever in relation
to the Secured Property;
(c) to do all other acts and things which he may consider desirable or
necessary for realising the Secured Property or incidental or conducive
to any of the rights, powers or discretions conferred on a Receiver
under, or by virtue of, this Charge; and
(d) to exercise in relation to the Secured Property all the powers,
authorities and things which he would be capable of exercising if he
were the absolute beneficial owner of the same.
9.4 CONFLICT
If there is any ambiguity or conflict between the powers conferred on the
Receiver by the applicable law and the powers conferred by Clause 9.3 (Powers of
a Receiver), the powers conferred by Clause 9.3 (Powers) shall prevail.
9.5 SECURITY TRUSTEE OF BORROWER
Any Receiver shall be the agent of DesalCo for all purposes and DesalCo shall be
solely responsible for the contracts, engagements, acts, omissions, defaults and
losses of the Receiver and for all liabilities incurred by the Receiver.
9.6 REMUNERATION
The Secured Party may, from time to time, determine the remuneration of any
Receiver and may direct payment of such remuneration out of moneys accruing to
the Receiver as Receiver but
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DesalCo shall be the only parties liable for the payment of such remuneration
and for all other costs, charges and expenses of the Receiver, unless incurred
as the result of the fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the
Receiver.
10. APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS
Any moneys held or received by the Secured Party under or pursuant to this
Charge shall be applied by the Secured Party in reduction of the amounts due to
the Secured Party under the terms of the Loan Agreement.
11. POWER OF ATTORNEY
11.1 APPOINTMENT
By way of security for the performance of its obligations hereunder, DesalCo
hereby irrevocably appoint the Secured Party, any Receiver of the Secured
Property or any part of it and its delegates and sub-delegates to be their
respective attorney acting severally (or jointly with any other such attorney or
attorneys) and on its behalf and in its name or otherwise to do any and every
thing which DesalCo is obliged to do under the terms of this Charge or which
such attorney considers necessary in order to enable the Secured Party or such
attorney to exercise the rights conferred on it by this Charge or by law.
11.2 RATIFICATION
DesalCo hereby ratify and confirm and agree to ratify and confirm whatever any
attorney appointed under this Charge shall do in its capacity as such.
12. RELEASE OF THE SECURITY
After the end of the Security Period, the Secured Party shall, at the request
and cost of the DesalCo, execute all such documents and do all such other things
as may be required to release the Security, in each case without recourse to or
any representation or warranty by or from the Secured Party.
13. COSTS AND EXPENSES
13.1 TRANSACTION COSTS
XxxxxXx agrees with the Secured Party that they shall on demand of the Secured
Party reimburse the Secured Party on a full indemnity basis all costs and
expenses (including legal fees), incurred by, or any remuneration payable to the
Secured Party in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution and
perfection of this Charge and the implementation of the arrangements
contemplated herein.
13.2 STAMP TAX
DesalCo shall pay any and all stamp, registration and other taxes to which this
Charge or any judgment given in connection herewith is or at any time may be
subject and shall on demand
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indemnify the Secured Party against any liabilities, costs, claims and expenses
(including legal fees) resulting from any failure to pay or delay in paying any
such tax.
13.3 INDEMNITY
DesalCo shall indemnify and hold harmless the Secured Party from and against any
and all costs, claims losses, expenses (including legal fees) and liabilities,
which the Secured Party may incur as a result of the occurrence of any Event of
Default, the enforcement of the Security or the exercise or enforcement by the
Secured Party of any of the rights conferred on it by this Charge or by law
unless incurred by the Secured Party as a result of its own fraud, wilful
misconduct or gross negligence or the fraud, gross negligence or wilful
misconduct of its delegates and sub-delegates.
14. NO WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE
No failure or delay on the part of the Secured Party in exercising any right,
power or privilege hereunder or under any other Financing Document and no course
of dealing between DesalCo and the Secured Party shall operate as a waiver
thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or
privilege hereunder or under any other Financing Document preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege
hereunder or thereunder. No notice to or demand on DesalCo in any case shall
entitle DesalCo to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other
circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the Secured Party to take
any other or further action in any circumstances without notice or demand. All
remedies, either under this Agreement or any other Financing Document or
pursuant to any applicable law or otherwise afforded to the Secured Party shall
be cumulative and not alternative.
15. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS
15.1 SEVERABILITY
Any provision hereof which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction
shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition
or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof and
without affecting the validity or enforceability of any provision in any other
jurisdiction.
15.2 CURRENCY CONVERSION
In order to apply any sum held or received by the Secured Party in or towards
payment of the Secured Obligations, the Secured Party may purchase an amount in
another currency and the rate of exchange to be used shall be that at which, at
such time as it considers appropriate, the Secured Party is able to effect such
purchase.
15.3 JUDGMENT CURRENCY
This is an international transaction in which the specification of Dollars and
payment in the Cayman Islands is of the essence, and the obligations of DesalCo
under this Charge and under the other Financing Documents to make payment to (or
for the account of) the Secured Party in
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Dollars shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender or recovery pursuant
to any judgment expressed in or converted into any other currency or in another
place except to the extent that such tender or recovery results in the effective
receipt by the Secured Party in Cayman of the full amount of Dollars payable to
the Secured Party under this Charge.
(a) If any sum due from DesalCo under this Charge (a "SUM"), or any order,
judgment or award given or made in relation to a Sum, has to be
converted from the currency (the "FIRST CURRENCY") in which that Sum
is payable into another currency (the "SECOND CURRENCY") for the
purpose of:
(i) making or filing a claim or proof against the Company or
DesalCo;
(ii) obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in relation
to any litigation or arbitration proceedings,
DesalCo shall as an independent obligation, within three (3) Business
Days of demand, indemnify the Secured Party against any cost, loss or
liability arising out of or as a result of the conversion including any
discrepancy between (A) the rate of exchange used to convert that Sum
from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (B) the rate or
rates of exchange available to the Secured Party at the time of its
receipt of that Sum.
(b) DesalCo waives any right each may have in any jurisdiction to pay any
amount under this Charge in a currency or currency unit other than that
in which it is expressed to be payable.
15.4 RIGHTS CUMULATIVE
The rights and remedies provided by this Charge are cumulative and not exclusive
of any rights or remedies provided by law.
15.5 MORTGAGEE IN POSSESSION
Neither the Secured Party nor any Receiver shall by reason of its taking any
action permitted by this Charge or its taking possession of the Secured Property
or any part of it be liable to account as mortgagee in possession or be liable
for any loss on realisation or for any default or omission for which a mortgagee
in possession might be liable other than for its own fraud, gross negligence and
wilful misconduct, or the fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct of its
delegates.
16. ASSIGNMENT
16.1 DESLACO'S RIGHTS
The rights of DesalCo under this Charge are not assignable or transferable and
XxxxxXx agrees that it will not purport to assign all or any such rights.
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16.2 THE SECURED PARTY'S RIGHTS
The rights of the Secured Party under this Charge are assignable in whole or in
part and the Secured Party may assign all or any such rights without the consent
of DesalCo. The Secured Party shall provide written notice to DesalCo of any
such assignment.
17. NOTICES
(a) All notices, requests, approvals, consents and other communications
provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including, unless the
context expressly otherwise provides, by facsimile transmission,
provided that any matter transmitted by DesalCo by facsimile (i) shall
be promptly confirmed by a telephone call to the recipient at the
number specified on the applicable signature page hereof, and (ii)
shall be followed promptly by a hard copy original thereof by express
courier) and faxed or delivered, to the address or facsimile number
specified for notices on the applicable signature page hereof or to
such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written
notice to the other parties hereto.
(b) All such notices, requests, approvals, consents and communications (i)
sent by express courier will be effective upon delivery to or refusal
to accept delivery by the addressee, and (ii) transmitted by facsimile
will be effective when sent and facsimile confirmation received; except
that all notices and other communications to any Agent shall not be
effective until actually received.
(c) DesalCo acknowledge and agree that any agreement of the Secured Party
to receive certain notices by telephone and facsimile is solely for the
convenience and at the request of DesalCo. The Secured Party shall be
entitled to rely on the authority of any Person purporting to be a
Person authorized by DesalCo to give such notice and the Secured Party
shall not have any liability to the DesalCo or other Person on account
of any action taken or not taken by the Secured Party in reliance upon
such telephonic or facsimile notice.
(d) All notices, requests and other communications hereunder and under the
other Financing Documents shall be in the English language unless
otherwise agreed by the parties hereto.
18. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
THIS CHARGE IS GOVERNED BY AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF
BARBADOS.
19. SUBMISSION
(a) For the exclusive benefit of the Secured Party and DesalCo irrevocably
agree that the courts of Barbados are to have jurisdiction to settle
any claims or disputes arising under, out of or in connection with this
Charge (including without limitation any claim or dispute relating to
the validity, interpretation, performance, termination or enforcement
of this Charge) and that accordingly any suit, action or proceedings in
that respect (together in Clauses 19 and 20 referred to as
"PROCEEDINGS") may be brought in such courts.
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(b) DesalCo irrevocably waive and agree not to raise any objection which
each of them may have now or hereafter to the laying of the venue of
any Proceedings in the courts of Barbados and any claim that any such
Proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient or inappropriate
forum.
(c) DesalCo irrevocably agree not to take Proceedings in any court of
competent jurisdiction other than the courts of Barbados, save with
respect to any counterclaim asserted by XxxxxXx in the course of
proceedings previously commenced by the Secured Party. Nothing
contained in this Clause 19 shall limit the right of the Secured Party
to take Proceedings against DesalCo in any other court of competent
jurisdiction, nor shall the taking of Proceedings in one or more
jurisdictions preclude the taking of Proceedings in any other
jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not.
20. JUDGMENTS AND IMMUNITY
(a) DesalCo recognizes and acknowledges that this Charge constitutes a
commercial transaction and accordingly it acknowledges and agrees that
it is not entitled to plead, and pursuant to this Clause 20 hereby
waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any right to claim,
sovereign immunity for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not
limited to, any right to plead sovereign immunity in respect of any
Proceedings pursuant to this Charge.
(b) DesalCo consents generally, in respect of any Proceedings pursuant to
this Charge for the purpose of enforcing any order, judgment or award,
to the giving of any relief or the issuing of any process in connection
with such order, judgment or award including, without limitation, the
making, enforcement or execution against any property of any order,
judgment or award and to the extent that DesalCo may be entitled in any
jurisdiction to claim for itself or its property immunity in respect of
its obligations under this Charge from any suit, execution, attachment
(whether in aid of execution, before judgment or otherwise) or legal
process or to the extent that in any jurisdiction there may be
attributed to itself or its property such immunity, XxxxxXx agrees not
to claim and hereby irrevocably waive such immunity to the fullest
extent permitted by the laws of such jurisdiction.
(c) XxxxxXx unconditionally and irrevocably agrees, with respect to any
final order, judgment or award in any Proceedings made pursuant to this
Charge and not subject to appeal (a "JUDGMENT" ), that:
(i) the Judgment shall be conclusive and binding upon it;
(ii) it shall be bound by and recognize the Judgment in any
jurisdiction;
(iii) to the extent permitted by law, it shall not claim, invoke on
its behalf or for its benefit any right it may have under the
laws of Barbados, or any other state or jurisdiction, to
prevent, delay, hinder, nullify or in any other way obstruct
the enforcement or execution of the Judgment; and
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(iv) to the extent permitted by law, it shall not, and shall
irrevocably waive any right to, challenge the Judgment on any
ground or the enforcement or execution of the Judgment in any
jurisdiction (other than by way of appeal in the original
jurisdiction).
21. COUNTERPARTS AND EFFECTIVENESS
21.1 COUNTERPARTS
This Charge may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different
parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all of which shall together constitute one
and the same instrument.
21.2 EFFECTIVENESS
This Charge shall take effect and be delivered as a deed on the date on which it
is stated to be made.
22. AMENDMENT OR WAIVER
No provision of this Agreement may be amended, supplemented, modified or waived,
except by written instrument signed by each of the parties hereto.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF this Charge has been executed as a deed by the parties hereto
and has been delivered on date stated at the beginning of this Deed.
DESALCO )
Executed on behalf of )
DESALCO LIMITED ) /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
as a deed by: )
Name: Mr. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Notice Address:
Address:
X.X.Xxx 1114 GT
Trafalgar House
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
Attention: Mr. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Telephone No.: 000 000-0000
Telecopier No. 000 000-0000
SECURED PARTY )
EXECUTED ON BEHALF OF ) /s/ Xxxxx Xxxx
XXXXXXXXXX (CAYMAN ISLANDS) LTD. )
as a deed by:
Name: Xx. Xxxxx Xxxx
Title: Commercial Banking Manager
Notice Address:
Address:
Scotiabank (Cayman Islands) Ltd.
Scotia Centre
Cardinal Avenue
P.O. Box 689
Grand Cayman
Attention: Commercial Banking Manager
Telephone No.: 000 000-0000
Telecopier No. 000 000-0000
By its execution of this Equitable Charge of Shares, DESALCO (BARBADOS)
LTD. hereby acknowledges the terms and conditions hereof, and irrevocably
undertakes that should the Secured Party exercise its rights under this
Equitable Charge of Shares, DesalCo (Barbados) Ltd. shall make all reasonable
efforts to ensure that no action, or failure to take any required action,
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which would have the effect of frustrating the Secured Party's ability to be
recorded in the Register of Members as the registered legal and beneficial owner
of the Shares shall be.
DESALCO (BARBADOS) LTD.
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Name: Mr. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Chief Executive Officer
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